Conveyer



(No Model.)

G. SIEURIN. OONVEYER.

No. 562,931. Patented June 30, 1896.

AN DREW asRAHAM. mum-umawnsnmcrnmuc UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE GEORGE SIEURIN, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CONVEYER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 562,931, dated June 30, 1896.

Application filed March 30, 1896.

To on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Gnonen SIEURIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at W'orces ter, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Conveyors, of which the following is a specification, accompanied by drawings forming a part of the same, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan view of a conveyer embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view upon a larger scale than that shown in Fig. 1. Fig. at is a side view upon a larger scale than that shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is an end view of the compensating truck and car supported thereby.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the different figures.

My invention has for its object to provide means for the conveyance of passengers or freight from one point to another, or for the conveyance of mail-matter or small packages of merchandise in store-service, or other purposes; and my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the track, and also in the construction and arrangement of a compensating truck adapted to be moved along said track by the application of any suitable and known motive power, and by which a car or other receptacle is supported, as hereinafter described, and set forth in the annexed claims.

The track, which embodies the first part of my invention, comprises a pair of cables A and A, supported at stated intervals in an elevated position by a series of alternating supports A that is, with the supports of one cable alternating 'with and placed midway between the supports of the other cable, so the point of greatest depression caused by the sagging of one cable shall come opposite a support of the other cable, as represented in Fig. 2. The cables A and A are preferably arranged in difierent vertical planes a short distance apart, as represented in Fig. 1. The cables A and A form a track along which the car or goods-receptacle is transported, and, as the the two cables are constantly varying in height, owing to the sagging of the cables between their points of support, the car is supported upon the track Serial No. 585,365. (No model.)

by means of a compensating truck which pro vides for the variation in the vertical height of different sections of the track, and maintains the car at uniform height.

In the drawings, B denotes a car or a receptacle which in the present instance is suspended beneath the track, and is connected at each end with a pair of trucks supported on the cables A A, the trucks being duplt cates of each other.

Each of the trucks by which the car B is supported consists of a pair of scored truckwheels O C, pivoted on studs 0 held in the ends of arms G 0 and connected at their opposite ends by a hub 0 which holds the truck-wheels C O in the plane of the cables A A. Studs 0 having their axes in alinement, project from the ends of the hubs C and upon the studs C a yoke C is pivoted, to which the car 13 is attached. The scored truck-wheel C is adapted to run along and be supported upon the cable A, and the truckwheel C is similarly supported upon the cable A, each of the truck-wheels rising and falling, to correspond with the plane of the cables A A, thereby raising and lowering the arms 0 C and rocking the hub G in its pivotal connection with the yoke 0, thereby maintaining the axes of the studs C in the same horizontal plane, so that the car B will be on a level notwithstanding the inequalities of the track.

I have shown the two cables A A as arranged in diiferent vertical planes, but it will be obvious that both cables A A could be placed in the same vertical plane, or one directly over the other, in which case the scored truck-wheels O 0 would be held in the same vertical plane by their connectin g-framework, or the track may comprise four cables, two on each side. It will also be obvious that the load instead of being suspended beneath the track can be located above the track and supported in the same manner as shown by the studs G I have not deemed it necessary to show these modifications, as they will be obvious from the description and illustration of the device shown in the drawings.

My improved conveyor affords a simple and inexpensive means of conveyance without the necessity of an expensive road-bed or fixed I Where the inequalities of surface or the natural conditions render it impossible to grade 1a road bed, and also in situations Where an e car along'the track, as such forms nopart of track, and it is specially adapted in sections elevated track is demanded.

I have not shown or described any special lllQEtllS'Of applying motive power to move a my present invention, and any known means of tractionor'propulsion can be employed for a that purpose.

I have employed the term cables in def scribing the track, but stripsof scantl'ing can be used for that purpose, and Where the load is light ccrdsor single Wires can be used.

What lclaiin as my invention, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is a 1. In a conveyer, the track as herein described and consisting of a pair oi cables supported at stated intervals by a'series of alternating supports, whereby the sagging of: each of said cables will produce the greatest depression opposite thesupport of the other cable, substantially as described.

2. In a conveyer, the combination of a track having sagging or depressed sections, of a pair of truck-wheels adapted to run on said track, and connected by a rigid frameworx.

and a car pivotallyconnected to said frame Work midway said truck wheels, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the track as described of a compensating truck comprising arms connected at one end by a hub, truck- Wheels carried by the other ends'of said arms,

and a carpivotally connected to said llllD,-

substantially as described.

4. In a conveyer, the combination of a pair of cables forming a track of atruck-Wheel running on eachof said cables, a frame connecting said trucks and a car or receptacle for the loadpivotally connected with said frame between said truck-Wheels; Wherebyan elevation in one 01": said cables is equalized by the depression in the other cable, substantially as described. Dated this 27th day of March, 1896'.

GEORGE SIEURIN.

Witnesses:

Rnnus B FoWLER, LENA HESTER. 

